The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-07-09
Detroit Free Press.

How to Have a Dress Made.
Detroit Free Press.
What Mr.. Bowser didn't know about
dress making up to a week ago wasn't
worth knowing. What he doesn't
know would fill large sized book. 1
was fretting about the delay on the part
of my dressmaker, when he suddenly
turned on me with
sMrs. Bowser, it's all llinfernalnonsens
When order suit of clothes they are
ready for me at the date set, and if
there is any reason why a dress-maker
can't do business on business princi-
Piles, I want to know it,
But l can't help it, I protested.
mo; you can't. You women are
fools to be imposed upon as you are !
I'd like to see one of those dress-makers
bamboozle me around the way they do
you!'
'But you don't wear dresses
sFor which thank Heaven! There is
more nonsense about selecting dress
and having it made up than is seen in
an idiot asylum in a year. I tell you,
it's all bosh!'
'You might select my dress goods for
me-
'Oh I might Well hang me if I
don't! Yes, sir, I'll go down this very
afternoon and buy you new dress, and
IN follow the cloth until you have it
on your back! I'll show you, Mrs.
Bowser that business is business i
He began operations after dinner
Mr.. Bowser has an alarm clock which
goes off to the minute. He, therefore,
argues that everybody else ought to 60
off with the same promptness and dis
patch. He jumped off the car and
rushed into dry goods store and
said:
'Give me twelve yards of stuff for a
dress-quick?'
Calico or silk p queried the clerk.
sWhy silk of course. You may give
me two shades-six yards in shade
I'll take green and blue
sBut no one can get a dress out of
twelves yards of silk, and as for the
colors-'
sThey can't eh?' howled Bowser,
my mother never had over twelve yards
for dress, and twelve has got to make
one for my wife. The colors are all
right.
The clerk gave him what he asked
for, and Bowser rushed home and flung
the package in my lap with,
'Been gone just thirty y-seven minutes
by the watch, while you would have
been fooling around three afternoons
There's twelve full yards, and if you
have any pieces left you can line my
overcoat sleeves
Twelve yards Why, never got
less than twenty-three Don't you see
how narrow the silk is?'
'Um! I thought it was sheeting
width, of course. That's another fraud
I'm going to look into
'And the shades-I can't wear EN-
no one could
you can't! Well, you will, all the
same! This talk about matching the
complexion with dress goods is the
twaddle of idiots? If green and blue
won't hit you, then let her miss It's
my taste, and I think I know what be-
longs to harmony. Well 60 down
after supper and get the dress-maker to
begin work.
'Oh you do! Well, you leave that
to me I'm bossing this job, Mrs. Bow
ser, and I'll learn you thing or two
before you get through
After supper we drove down town to
a dressmaker's. AS we got out of the
carriage Bowser charged me to keep
nv mouth shut and let him do the tax.
ing, and I carefully promised obedience.
He carried the bundle under his arm,
and, as we entered the shop, he asked !:
will you take contract to build
Mrs. Bowser dress and have it finish
ed by certain datel'
Let me see the goods she replied,
but no sooner had she opened the pack
age then she asked:
is it some fancy suit for the circus
ring2'
Circus ring!' he whooped !; what is
there about these goods to remind you
of circus ring7'
'The colors.
sMrs. Bowser,' he said, as he turned
to me, I'VE will go elsewhere. 1t is evil
dent that this person has come out Of
some door-knob factory to take up
dressmaking.'
At the second place the dressmakel
smiled as she saw the colors, and replied
that she wouldn't think of beginning
work without twenty-four yards of silk
at hand.
Then you will never begin / ex'
claimed Bowser. 'It's high time the
long suffering public kicked against thi:
dressmaking robbery. When I buy
twelve yards of silk for dressmaker te
to steal you can expect I'm going die
the next week.
The third dressmaker seemed to un
derstand the situation at glance. She
opened the silk, rolled it up again ant
calmly but firmly said:
Il am very busy just now. You'e
better take it to some blacksmith
shop
Then we went home for the night
Bowser was mad and wouldn't speak t.
| me, and as he slept he dreamed o